Where for art thou, Armando?

There has been a lot of comment about UMass landing a number of transfers. There has been less talk about UMass players who transferred out.

Since last year at least four members of the 2004 Minutemen have left.

Backup TB Lorenzo Perry (So. 5-6 182 transferred to Bryant

Backup DB Julius Walker (So. 5-10 176) transferred to AIC

Redshirt Freshman DT Desmond Lymon (6-2 290) transferred who-knows-where.

Starting K Michael Torres (So. 5-9 185) transferred to an I-A university in Florida. Torres' ( who spent time in both Whipple�s and Brown�s dog house) leaving puts a big hole in the UMass kicking game.

He was 2-5 in field goals (longest 38). Torres kicked off 44 times for 2647 yards with 5 TB�s and kicked out-of-bounds 4 times.

With the graduation of backup kicker Matt Goldstein, Torres� transfer leaves UMass without a kicker. The handout given out at the spring game did not list a kicker. Nor does the current roster on the UMass website. At the spring game UMass ran about three field goal attempts. It was major ugly.

So that means 2005 recruit Armando Cuko (5-11 180) from Beverly MA will be the only true freshman to start for UMass. Cuko was born in Armenia and is a former soccer player. He had an excellent career for Beverly High.His bio is here.

Armando, do lots of leg lifts or whatever it is that kickers do, because you�ll be the starting K and kickoff man under the lights at Richmond on 09/01/2005�